Stories along my journey.

When I showed up as a freshman to get the key to my room in Crawford Hall on the campus of Tennessee Tech University, a…

“That’s why they call it work.” You’ve probably heard that expression, often used as a verbal shrug after summarizing something done not by choice but…

Some hikers have no trouble deciding, from the trail, that it’s not the day or the time or the right conditions to finish. I’m not…

I grew up about 45 minutes away from the most-visited of Tennessee’s 56 state parks, but I never got to experience it until a couple…